Dan ten Winkel

Dan ten Winkel was a Dutch Resistance leader during World War II. He was born in Arnhem, Netherlands, and he was married and had one son, who was born in 1931. During World War II, Ten Winkel communicated with British intelligence via radio, and his son helped him with scouting out German tanks and Walther Model's presence in Arnhem in 1944. Ten Winkel told the British G-2 intelligence officer Brian Urquhart about this, but the British high command refused to listen, instead sending Urquhart on sick leave. The ensuing Operation Market Garden would end in failure, and Ten Winkel's son was gunned down by German machine gun fire during the Battle of Arnhem while helping to put the bodies of dead civilians into a pile.